TROPENTAG 2015

Tropentag 2015 was organized by the Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany on16 – 18 September 2015 and the theme was:

“Management of land use systems for enhanced food security – conflicts, controversies and resolutions”.

AGRINATURA TRAVEL GRANT AND BEST POSTER AWARD 2015

Every year AGRINATURA supports students going to Tropentag conference. In 2015 eight students received the travel grant as high as 500 EUR.At the same time, AGRINATURA granted the Best Poster Award of three best Tropentag posters with prize of 500 €, 300 € and 200 € respectively.

To be eligible, applicant for a travel grant must fulfil the following conditions:

must be a student of an AGRINATURA member institution (the list of member institutions is available here)

must be first author of the contribution

must be personally present at the venue during the conference

must place the logo of AGRINATURA on the contribution (poster or presentation) and agree with publication on a website.

The Awardees of AGRINATURA Travel Grant 2015 are listed in the table below:

OTHER SECTIONS

AGRINATURA is a grouping of European universities and research organizations with a common interest in supporting agricultural development in a sustainable manner in order to improve people’s lives.

AGRINATURA brings its collective resources to work in partnership with international collaborators. It seeks to nurture scientific excellence through joint research, educational and training programmes and projects and advocates for greater support for agricultural research and educational programmes that contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals and the new agenda of Sustainable Development Goals.